Blueroom Pete

[b]Westone Thunder 1A[/b] Natural finish, gift from my uncle. [b]Aria Pro II[/b] Can'r remember the model, first bass I bought myself, had Bartonlini Pickups. [b]Warwick Fortress Masterman[/b] Blue oil stain, great looks, great to play but never got on with it sonically. [b]73 Fender P-Bass[/b]Three tone burst, rosewood board, now owned by bass player from The Answer. [b]20th Anniversary MM Stingray[/b] Best bass I ever owned, flamed maple top, rosewood board. Stolen in a break in. [b]CIJ 75 Reissue Fender Jazz[/b] Sunburst, black scratchplate, great sounding bass, awesome recorded. Also stolen in break in. [b]CIJ 75 Reissue Fender Jazz[/b] Natural ash, bought to replace the stolen Jazz but never felt happy with it. [b]2004 MM Stingray 3EQ[/b] My main instrument now, great bass, honeyburst with black scratchplate and rosewood board [b]MIJ 62 Reissue Fender P-Bass[/b] Vintage white, tort scratchplate, rosewood board. Bought for the Blues Brothers band but getting used more and more. Coming soon... Fender Jaguar Bass, it's black but I'll probably get it refinished to Old Lake Placid with matching headstock. I've also got a Palatino EUB in the studio that's been on long term loan from Markbass 555 on here!

thanks everyone for the replies. It purely live use that I'm worried about. When it comes to recording I own a studio so I have an Avalon DI that I'll blend in with a nice valve mic on the cab. I just won't be taking either anywhere near a stage!

For the first time in years I'm back using a range of FX on my bass signal in a live situation, the new band is a three piece and I'm trying to inject something more interesting sonically into the mix. One thing that has occured to me however is when I start gigging with this new setup most live sound engineers in this neck of the woods are happy enough to just take a DI feed for the bass and forget about micing the amp in anyway. With a bog standard DI this is probably going to make my carefully blended overdrive and fuzz tones sound awful and fizzy. So it occured to me that I could bring my own DI box with speaker simulation incase I can't convince the engineer to mic one of my cabs. I have a Hughes and Kettner Redbox that sits in a drawer in the studio so I was considering giving it a new lease of life on my pedal board. Has anyone had any experience of this? I am aware that most of the circuits in these emulations are meant to model 4x12 guitar cabs so I have slight reservations on what it will do to my tone.

Just listened to Amused to Death by Roger Waters for the first time in years. Forgotten how much I liked it.

Hi everyone, after a while lurking and browsing for advice and info I've finally decided to participate a bit around here! My name's Pete Pratt, I'm from Donaghadee, a small seaside town in County Down, Northern Ireland. Been playing bass in bands of varying quality for about 15 years now. Currently playing with three different bands : a Blues Brothers tribute show (Duck Dunn is a hero of mine so this is a dream gig), a pub rock cover band (to satisfy my guilty 80s rock urges) and most recently an indie rock band called Nanook writing original material (influenced by the likes of Athlete, Elbow, Doves etc). When I'm not playing with other musicians I'm producing and recording them in my recording studio, [url="http://www.blueroomrecording.co.uk"]Blueroom Recording[/url] From what I've seen already I'll certainly be at home amongst all the fellow GAS sufferers here. Right this minute I'm fighting the urge to pick up a Jaguar Bass. It's going at such an attractive price it would be a sin to pass it up.